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"Your Royal Highnesses: It is a great honour for me, as President of the European Parliament, to receive here today the Head of the State currently holding the Presidency of the European Union.
Together you are perpetuating the links uniting your family with your people and continuing along the path opened up by your father, reconciling tradition and modernity. That is perhaps the best summary of what Luxembourg represents today: the best combination of tradition and modernity that human beings have ever been able to create.
you have the floor.
on behalf of my fellow Members and on my own behalf, I welcome you most warmly. Your presence here in our House is evidence of your interest in European integration and the important role being played by your country in this process. Your visit has an historical link to the visit of your father, Grand Duke Jean, on 22 November 1990, almost fifteen years ago now.
The European Union then had twelve Member States and the European Union had 340 million citizens. Today we have more than doubled, 25 countries and 455 million Europeans. These figures demonstrate how long a road we have travelled, and during this time we have managed to reunify a continent and share the same values.
Your country, Luxembourg, has always been a loyal and committed advocate of European integration, and your Presidency has demonstrated once again that the so-called ‘small’ countries, small in size but great in history, are able to hold great presidencies and provide additional
for Community integration, thanks to the work of intelligent politicians who have made themselves constantly available to this Parliament.
Looking back to the past, we must remember that the name of your country, Luxembourg, is associated with important moments in European history, such as the Luxembourg Compromise of 1966, which managed to bring France back to the Community table. This is a magnificent moment in the history of Europe and it carries the name of your country. And today, with three quarters of your mandate complete, the Luxembourg Presidency has already been a great success, and I am sure this will become even more the case over the rest of your Presidency.
your country’s government has achieved an agreement on the Stability Pact during its Presidency of the Union, respecting its fundamental principles; it has redirected the Lisbon Strategy and we have just signed the Accession Treaties with Romania and Bulgaria in Luxembourg, although there is no hiding the fact that the most difficult issue, that of the financial perspectives for 2007-2013, has yet to be concluded. Let us have faith in the efforts of the Luxembourg Presidency to conclude it well.
since you were proclaimed Grand Duke in October 2000, you have always expressed your concern for all the inhabitants of your country, in particular by ensuring the proper integration of the different nationalities living there and preventing any form of social exclusion, and we know that you are joined in this task by your wife, the Grand Duchess María Teresa, and it is our honour to receive her here today as well."@en1
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